Embed a Kickstarter Video in a WordPress Post
Kickstarter videos are iframes which can’t usually be embedded in WordPress posts. This is just silliness on Kickstarter’s part because WordPress powers a huge number of websites on the web. If people could easily embed a Kickstarter video in a WordPress post I think they would be more inclined to post about them. So I [...]
Previews for Unpublished WordPress Posts
Sometimes I do interviews on the Shirt List and I would like to send a link to the interviewees before it goes live but there was no clean way of doing this before. Now, with this new plugin you can create previews for unpublished WordPress posts. Have you ever been writing a post with the [...]
Post WordPress Posts to Facebook Automatically
I think the potential of social networks to increase traffic to your blog or website is fantastic but the problem is that the time we spend on social networks is time lost creating the actual content that is needed to get people to visit your website. So we need to automate as much as possible. [...]
How to import Tumblr to WordPress
I decided to learn how to import Tumblr to WordPress. The reason is a friend of mine is thinking of moving his Tumblr to a WordPress installation because he feels that the limitations of Tumblr are holding him back so I was wondering how easy it would be do make the move. In the WordPress [...]
WordPress WP-Leads Plugin – Simple Improvements
More than one WP-Leads Plugin First of all, I think you need to be aware that there are two WordPress plugins circulating with the same name and that name is WP-Leads. One of them is created by leadtree.com and the other by a WordPress user who goes by the name OccamsRazor who seems to have [...]
Improve your WordPress blog: How I did it.
Hints on how to improve your WordPress blog Do you want to improve your WordPress blog? On the weekend I decided I did. And below I will detail most of the steps I took. Some of these ideas may not apply to your blog but many them will so take a read through and maybe [...]
Guide for Installing WordPress Plugins
Installing WordPress plugins is easy There is no doubt that finding and installing WordPress plugins is easy in WordPress. It could almost be too easy. You can find plugins to do all types of things in WordPress, from a simple poll, to fully blown forum software or even a plugin to turn your WordPress installation [...]
Is anyone looking at my website?
Is anyone looking at my website? It’s a simple but important question. OK, some people may use a website as a type of diary and may not be interested in whether anyone is reading it or not but I assume that you are like me and are hoping many people read what you have to [...]
Installed WordPress – What next?
1. Delete plugins and themes. This will be a short post and it is just a recommendation. When you install WordPress using a one-click installer, your web host often adds some plugins and themes. I recommend deleting most of these plugins and themes. If you are manually installing you may as well skip down to [...]
Tips for Installing WordPress
In the last post I said that I was going to show you how easy it is to set up WordPress but as every host is different I have instead decided that I will just give you a few tips. As I said before setting up a WordPress site has become very easy these days [...]
